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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 13
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The Lord tests his people to see if they will worship false gods—Prophets, dreamers, relatives, or friends who advocate worship of false gods shall be put to death—Idolatrous cities shall be destroyed.
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If</span> there arise among you a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophet</a>, or a dreamer of <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/13/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Dreams.">dreams</a>, and giveth thee a <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/13/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Signs.">sign</a> or a wonder,
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And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 22: 20.">gods</a>, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
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Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophet</a>, or that dreamer of dreams: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/13/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">proveth</a> you, to know whether ye love the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> after the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Capital Punishment.">death</a>; because he hath spoken to <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/13/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG False Doctrine.">turn</a> <i>you</i> away from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/13/5c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB seduce (also v. 10).">thrust</a> thee out of the way which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God commanded thee to walk in.  So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
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&#182; If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 29.">son</a>, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which <i>is</i> as thine own soul, <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/13/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Peer Influence; TG Temptation.">entice</a> thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
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<i>Namely,</i> of the gods of the people which <i>are</i> round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the <i>one</i> end of the earth even unto the <i>other</i> end of the earth;
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Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 10: 28.">consent</a> unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
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But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 7.">first</a> upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
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And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
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And all Israel shall hear, and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 13.">fear</a>, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
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&#182; If thou shalt hear <i>say</i> in one of thy cities, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
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<i>Certain</i> men, the children of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 20: 13; 1 Sam. 1: 16; 1 Sam. 2: 12; 2 Sam. 16: 7; 2 Sam. 20: 1; Jude 1: 19.">Belial</a>, are gone out from among you, and have <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/13/13b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB seduced.">withdrawn</a> the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
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Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, <i>if it be</i> truth, <i>and</i> the thing certain, <i>that</i> such abomination is wrought among you;
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Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that <i>is</i> therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
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And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/13/17a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB you shall not retain any of the confiscated property.">there</a> shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> may turn from the fierceness of his <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/13/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 25: 4.">anger</a>, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
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When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do <i>that which is</i> right in the eyes of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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